It seems that some, including Harvard... professor... and longtime Obama pal Charles Ogletree wish to defend the president, most specifically from Sarah Palin's recent use of Obama's own description of himself as a "Constitutional Law Professor."

"I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution,"Obama said during a fundraiser at a March 30, 2007 fundraiser.

Interestingly enough, in April 2009 Power Line blog reported that the Obama administration had already begun backpedaling from Obama's grandiose self-imagery. It seems that during an exchange from a press conference, Helen Thomas asked Robert Gibbs;

"Why is the president blocking habeas corpus from prisoners at Bagram? I thought he taught constitutional law. And these prisoners have been there..."

It seems even Obama's own educators might be a bit confused, if not wholly racist, as they point out in a statement on the subject:

The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as "Senior Lecturer."

From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School's Senior Lecturers has high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.

Finally, it seems the BBC might be racist, as in January 2009 they produced and aired a podcast titled "Obama: Professor President."

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